Student loan issue shows GOP's colors

It is with mixed feelings that I heard the news that every Republican in the U.S. Senate has chosen to allow student loan interest rates to double in June. Their reasoning is that we must have some way to pay for them. This means typically cutting social programs that aid the most needy of our nation. We must not be forced to choose between education loans and basic services to the poor, as the Republicans seem to want to do.

They say unless you find ways to pay for them that do not involve increased taxes on the rich or cutting defense, we will filibuster. According to them, acceptable ways are cutting social programs, such as those that feed children or provide basic health care to the under-served. I said I have mixed feelings: sadness at this misguided stance, but gladness at the fact that their true colors are showing.